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SDI Group (LSE:SDI) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % : 0.00% (As of Oct. 2023)


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What is SDI Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %?

SDI Group's Enterprise Value for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was £125.66 Mil. SDI Group's EBIT for the trailing twelve months (TTM) ended in Oct. 2023 was £4.60 Mil. SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 0.00%.

The historical rank and industry rank for SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % or its related term are showing as below:

LSE:SDI' s Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Range Over the Past 10 Years
Min: -0.12   Med: 4.76   Max: 14.92
Current: 6.01

During the past 13 years, the highest Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) of SDI Group was 14.92%. The lowest was -0.12%. And the median was 4.76%.

LSE:SDI's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % is ranked better than
66.21% of 2480 companies
in the Hardware industry
Industry Median: 3.2 vs LSE:SDI: 6.01

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

A better indicator of the attractiveness of an investment which takes growth into account is the Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) %. SDI Group's Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % for the quarter that ended in Oct. 2023 was 0.00%. The Forward Rate of Return uses the normalized Free Cash Flow of the past seven years, and considers growth. The forward rate of return can be thought of as the return that investors buying the stock today can expect from it in the future.


SDI Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Historical Data

The historical data trend for SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % can be seen below:

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SDI Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Chart

SDI Group Annual Data
Trend Apr14 Apr15 Apr16 Apr17 Apr18 Apr19 Apr20 Apr21 Apr22 Apr23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %
Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only 4.03 6.04 3.33 6.42 3.35

SDI Group Semi-Annual Data
Apr14 Oct14 Apr15 Oct15 Apr16 Oct16 Apr17 Oct17 Apr18 Oct18 Apr19 Oct19 Apr20 Oct20 Apr21 Oct21 Apr22 Oct22 Apr23 Oct23
Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Get a 7-Day Free Trial Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only Premium Member Only - 6.42 - 3.35 -

Competitive Comparison of SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %

For the Scientific & Technical Instruments subindustry, SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) %, along with its competitors' market caps and Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Distribution in the Hardware Industry

For the Hardware industry and Technology sector, SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where SDI Group's Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % falls into.



SDI Group Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Calculation

In his book, The Little That Beat the Market, hedge fund manager Joel Greenblatt defines Earnings Yield as operating income divided by enterprise value.

SDI Groups Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) for the fiscal year that ended in Apr. 2023 is calculated as

Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt)=EBIT/Enterprise Value
=6.812/203.19
=3.35 %

For company reported semi-annually or annually, GuruFocus only calculate annual data for Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) and apply the annual figure to corresponding quarter.



SDI Group  (LSE:SDI) Earnings Yield (Joel Greenblatt) % Explanation

Joel Greenblatt defines the earnings yield using the above equation because it more accurately reflects the company's profitability relative to its stock price. Items like interest payment and tax etc. are not directly related to the company's operational profitability.

Enterprise Value instead of market cap (share price) is used in the calculation because it is the real price stock and bond investors together pay for the company.


Be Aware

Joel Greenblatt's definition of earnings yield has the same problems the regular earnings yield does. It does not consider the growth of the company. It only looks at one-year's business operation. For cyclical companies, the earnings yield is usually highest at the peak of the business cycle. But these earnings are rarely sustainable.

Forward Rate of Return (Yacktman) % based on Don Yacktman's definition is a better measure of the expected rate of return for a stock.


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SDI Group PLC designs and manufactures scientific and technology products for use by the life science, healthcare, astronomy, consumer manufacturing and art conservation markets through Synoptics, the Artemis, the Opus instruments, and Astles Control systems brands. The Digital Imaging segment incorporates the Synoptics brands Syngene, Synbiosis, Synoptics Health and Fistreem, the Atik brands Atik Cameras, Opus and Quantum Scientific Imaging, and the Graticules Optics business. The Sensors & Control segment combines our Sentek, Astles Control Systems, Applied Thermal Control, Thermal Exchange, MPB Industries and Chell Instruments businesses. It operates in the UK, Europe, America, Rest of Asia, and Rest of the world segments. It derives most of its revenues from America segment.